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What Our Alumni & Attendees Say

Read first-hand accounts from our alumni and conference attendees on how our training programs have transformed their careers. These testimonials highlight the real-world impact of our work and the value of joining a global community dedicated to growth, professionalism, and making a difference.

“My overall experience with The Institute and their model is one of utmost satisfaction and fulfilment both personally and professionally. From an administrative point of view, their staff are friendly, skilled and efficient professionals who promptly attend to all technical and administrative matters. They are dedicated to resolve any issues, present or arising, to everyone’s satisfaction in a professional and ethical manner.

From an educational point of view, the institute offers a high quality of education that encompasses personal and professional development and growth. Theory and practice are well balanced allowing for learning to be both an informative and experiential process. Trainers are person/horse-attuned, grounded professionals highly experienced in their respective fields. Meg’s genuine interest into understanding the inner world of another and their experiences of themself, others and their immediate and distant environment which she carries out with an attuned attention and respect to one’s needs, their boundaries and tolerance to psychological discomfort creates safe and trusting conditions for personal and professional exploration of oneself and one’s interpersonal relationships. It also provides a fertile space for psychological roadblocks to emerge and be safely held and contained.

The institute’s geographic location within a natural environment reflects their commitment to restoring natural ways of relating to oneself and another. Overall, it is a place of nourishment and nurturance personally and professionally.”

Ivana

equine assisted therapy online training Meg + Zah
equine psychotherapy horse eye

“The 3 week Institute Training program is wonderful, but it’s only the beginning. The new learnings, concepts and experiences changes your life. The way I view things, my reactions to things, my understanding of myself will enable me to grow as a person and as a practitioner. My relationship with horses now grows as a partnership, as colleagues on a journey together, I’m excited!”

From an educational point of view, the institute offers a high quality of education that encompasses personal and professional development and growth. Theory and practice are well balanced allowing for learning to be both an informative and experiential process. Trainers are person/horse-attuned, grounded professionals highly experienced in their respective fields. Meg’s genuine interest into understanding the inner world of another and their experiences of themself, others and their immediate and distant environment which she carries out with an attuned attention and respect to one’s needs, their boundaries and tolerance to psychological discomfort creates safe and trusting conditions for personal and professional exploration of oneself and one’s interpersonal relationships. It also provides a fertile space for psychological roadblocks to emerge and be safely held and contained.

The institute’s geographic location within a natural environment reflects their commitment to restoring natural ways of relating to oneself and another. Overall, it is a place of nourishment and nurturance personally and professionally.”

Genevieve

“Attending the EAL training was a massive growth point for me personally… I realised that all the personal work I had done on my own self-awareness, spirituality and other methods I had used had never really reached the depth of this work. The support I received was life changing. The professional learnings were also on a very deep level. As I needed to undo some of my current professional frameworks to allow the new information to be downloaded. The I- thou relationship particularly was actually very moving for me because I feel it is what I value in my professional practice although I felt through years of operating in other frameworks, I had moved away from it. It felt like a breath of fresh air to look at it from this view point, it felt authentic, caring, in tune and a very humanistic way of working with people. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to go through the training process from a very experiential hands on learning.”

Lara

animal assisted therapy dog and meggin
animal assisted learning dog

“The Institute’s three-week intensive was a thoroughly rewarding and transformative experience. I left with new friends, an equine community and a solid theoretical, practical and experiential framework from which to platform into my own equine psychotherapy practice. The course is well balanced and in-depth, challenging, supportive, experiential and practical, and offers ongoing study and supervision to deepen learning and practice and connection with the Institute community. I was very impressed with what I learned both personally and professionally, and see that the Institute model marries very well with my training and practice as a psychologist.”

Emma